1891.
Oct. 26
Concord, Massachusetts.
Concord & Carlisle. - Forenoon cloudy threatening rain but 
only a light sprinkle came. At about noon the clouds
began to break away and the afternoon was perfectly
clear and very still and warm.
  George brought the horse at 8.30 and a little
later we started, driving directly to Farrar's hill.
I beat over most of the the ground without driving any
game birds but at length Don found two Partridges.
They both rose wild but one, which went down the
run, lay closely the second time [deleted]but[/deleted] when, although Don
pointed it and I got close to him before it rose,
it gave me a very hard shot which I missed.
Soon after this Don put up a very wild Woodcock
which alighted after flying about 100 yds. but
again rose wild when I approached. I shot at
it the second time but missed and did not
see it again. I found another, however, that lay
close among ground juniper and killed it with
my second barrel after missing with the first.
I next beat Wadleigh's Run finding nothing
there but in the scrub oaks behind the "Parker
Lot" Don pointed a third Woodcock. I went
in and flushed it but did not see it at all.
Following the direction of the sound of its whistle
I started it again among wild apple trees
in a pasture but curiously enough I again only
heard [deleted]only[/deleted] the sound of its wings although
it must have gone off in plain sight of me.
After a long search I flushed it a third time
and shot it. It fell broken winged and
ran about 50 yards to a ground juniper in
[margin]Woodcock shooting[/margin]